Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillipswas an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth29 November 1811
CountryUnited States of America
compete forgets himself late men proud
How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of late forgets himself into immortality
morning men government
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
fighting men slave
Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!
men law feet
The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
destiny men lasts
Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
men thinking world
Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.
mean past men
Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.
wall men doe
There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself. Suppose she does; there are certain principles which limit this right. Society has got the murderer within four walls; he never can do any more harm. Has society any need to take that man's life to protect itself? If any society has only the right that the individual has, she has no right to inflict the penalty of death, because she can effectually restrain the individual from ever again committing his offence.
men two forget
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
men two political
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
men law aggravation
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
moving men ideas
It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world
men advice causes
My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.
war reading men
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.